[quote=”7 Zwerge” post=3179]Hallo stefanie!
Do you clean the tank while the fish still live in it, or do you often make a new tank?[/quote]
Hi, Dorothee,
that was just something I wanted to correct when I read your answer (in post 3178) to my post 😉 .
I also, like you, don’t like to disturb my animals too often, so I don’t do bigger cleaning works, I just clean the glass front every week when I do the water changes. Whenever I think the tank needs a thorough cleaning (remove the old leaves etc.) I take out the fish and set up the tank completely new: Empty it, clean it with hot water, put in new peat granules, leaves and so on – like described above. That’s the great advantage in paros – that you can set up a tank completely new and put the fish in at once.
[quote=”Davy” post=”3177″]What is your conductivity in yours tanks just before you change the water on it?[/quote]
The conductivity stays much the same – it’s about 55 µS max. when I change it. Putting in only about 25% new water with a conductivity of about 30 µS like our rain water doesn’t show a great influence, the conductivity is around 45 – 50 µS again after changing. That’s the average level I (or better my paros) live with ………..
I have one tank, it’s one of the smallest (12 liter), where my cf. rubrimontis fry live in. This tank has a pH about 4,2 – and a conductivity of about 100 µS. I can do 50% water changes and do not succeed in lowering the conductivity level. The tank is set up like all other tanks ………… I can’t say why the conductivity is so high. I’m waiting for the fry to grow to a “catchable” size – then I can empty the tank and clean it thoroughly. Right now the fish seem to do well ………….. as long as they are too young to breed the conductivity will be no problem, I think.